Matthias, the GlusterFS client works over FUSE, and FUSE doesn't support mmap yet. That means you can't load libraries (.so) from FUSE filesystems. Witch takes to no GlusterFS root filesystems. Well, not 100% sure, but almost. Best regards, Daniel On Nov 14, 2007 7:06 AM, Matthias Albert <gluster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone tried using glusterfs as root fs? > > We are using openqrm as deployment/management system for our servers > here. With openqrm we can deploy both native machines and e.g. xen > images. As root Filesystem we are currently using NFS which isn't really > fast. > > Because we're using glusterfs for our backups and also for our Samba/NFS > Server it is close to use it also as root filesystem for our xen images. > > I think the only thing we need is fuse in a initrd and the glusterfs > binary with the needed shared object files. > > Any helpful suggestions? > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
